Zimbabwe national newspaper website hacked

As if Zimbabwe didn’t have enough problems their national newspaper, The Herald, has been brought to its knees by hackers.

The state controlled newspaper has been criticized in the past as being a mouthpiece for the governing party Zanu-PF.

According to Reuters: “The website http://www.herald.co.zw/ has been unavailable since Saturday after it was hacked by someone calling himself “r4b00f”. Visitors were redirected to the website of a state-owned Sunday newspaper.”

“Headlines on the site were replaced by the word Gukurahundi, referring to a campaign of atrocities the government has been accused of committing after independence,” said Reuters.